Shadows

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images–one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.” — Susan Sontag, On Photography

Color images attempt to capture reality at a moment in time. Black and white images merely capture the shadow of that reality.

Entrance to Sand Canyon in North Coyote Buttes

The iceberg graveyard on the Antarctica Peninsula is a magical place where the currents and winds steer huge icebergs into a bay where they become grounded and stationary until the sun melts them away.

The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument create land forms and dunes that constantly change as the desert winds move the sand, sculpting new, other-worldly structures.